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Verified videos showing controlled demolitions and excavators tearing down buildings published to social media since the ceasefire have also been geolocated to areas behind the Yellow Line.

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Brazil’s been criticized by leaders and NGO groups for tearing down the Amazon rainforest for agriculture production.

At sharp bends in the road they stopped to tear down huts that were blocking the long trucks from making the turn.

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“I don’t think you build new worlds or tear down old ones with a film, but you can point things out to people, discreetly,” Skarsgård says.

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Feared and loathed by his adversaries, Hemedti is admired by his followers for his tenacity, ruthlessness, and his promise to tear down a discredited state.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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